Posted ‘high noon 🕛 bells’ 🔔 Munday 10th Novembaa 2025
“BURN OOT!” 🔥(IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE!)
Anothaa week and another miserable result in London—This time on the west side and not the east side where we capitulated 3-1 again! (3-1 at West Ham last Sunday!)
For a change we wore dark blue shirts with orange shorts and socks, but it made nee difference to the 'jinxed' green and white we normally wear away!
The warnin bells 🔔 came early on when a scramble in wor box nearly led to a Brentfaad opener az they attacked the end that we were housed in!
Then just before the half hour mark The Toon took the lead when Harvey Barnes fired home from inside the box from a Woltemade assist, to put us 1-0 up to joyous cheers from wor section!
We managed to hold oot up until the break, but the 2nd half woz totally calamitous!
11 minutes after the restart The Pope made a hash of tryin to punch the baall away —and it fell nicely for Schade who had the simple task of heedin the baall ower the line unmarked! 1-1
And then the 2 Dan Burn penalty incidents!
The forst one woz when Big Dan woz deemed to have tripped Ouattara in the box az he theatrically went doon! The ref woz havin non of it and booked Ouattara for simulation!
However!— another penalty appeal in the 73rd minute against Big Dan woz upheld, when he brought doon Ouattara and this time the ref produced a red card for the big man for a 2nd bookable offence, to reduce us to 10 men and of course a penalty kick against us!
The Pope had sustained an arm injury, when he fell awkwardly a few minutes beforehand and woz replaced by Aaron Ramsdale between’the sticks’, but he couldn’t prevent Thiago from scorin, az he sent wor sub keeper the wrang way to put them 2-1 up!
There woz a glimmer of hope when the 4th official put up ELEVEN minutes of stoppage time (Due to Pope’s injury when he fell and several substitutions from both sides!)
Elanga, who had came on in the 77th minute, missed a great chance to equalise, but it The Beez Knees of Brentfaad who put the game to bed after more defensive errors, when in the 6th minute of time added, Thiago beat Botman to a loose baall, to fire home an easy chance, which saw the away end empty, very rapidly!
A complete ‘Burn oot’ 🔥for sure in more ways than one!
The result leaves NUFC in 14th place in the Premyaa Leegue table and just 2 above the relegation zone, az we enter yet another International break!----Next up>>>The Blue Moonies of Man City at SJP in 13 days time!
We have scored just 3 goals in wor 6 away Leegue games and have drawn 3 and lost 3 for just 3 points oot of a possible 18
NUFC have aalso used 3 different away strips this season and have never played in wor black n white stripes away from home in the Leegue!
(We did played in black n stripes at USG in The Champions Leegue, when we won 4-0!)
Attendance: 17,207 (1,800 very weary travellers!)
The jorney doon had been a nightmare the day before, with replacement buses from York to Wakefield because of line work on LNER—But the jorney back yem torned oot to be even worse! (Deep breath!) A bus from Brentfaad to Hammersmith underground station—a tube to King’s Cross—-a train to Wakefield Westgate—a bus from Wakefield to York, where, to compoond my misery, a veteran, who had been to the Cenotaph in London for Remembrance Sunday, sat beside me on the packed bus and spotted mee Toon badges—and said the immortal words—“I’m not going to tell you who I support!”—(Oh yes you are, I thought!) and then gleefully told me he woz a fcukin mackem fan! (yi couldn’t possibly make it up!)—then after an hours bus ride, a train from York to The Central (Toon train station) —-and finally! the last bus yem after continuous travellin from when the match ended at ‘4.05 🛎️s’ to nearly midneet 🔔s’
Aall that horrendous travellin for a horrendous result (yet again!) Bus-tube-train-bus-train-bus! (Both on the way doon and back!)
PUB CRAWL PIX*** 9 VISITED⬇️
THE BETJEMANS ARMS, ST PANCRAS, LONDON (Many visits previously)
